HowBoutThatElf has made 2 posts and is from and is not online.
Posted Wednesday 31st December 1969 (07:00pm)

definily agree with eryan on seeing things you never understood in the LOTR. Like the whole line of gandlafs infront of the balrog in moria and just the balrong in general. There are some great parts to the book! but some of the chapters are long and dull.

MelliotSandybanks has made 1516 posts and is a Hobbit from Hobbiton and is not online.
Posted Wednesday 31st December 1969 (07:00pm)

I also have the Silm in paperback. I love it. It is a great book. There are some boring bits but on the whole a great book. It also explains a lot about LOTR. I really have learned a lot since reading it.

Ross has made 2154 posts and is an Elf from Lothlorien and is not online.
Posted Wednesday 31st December 1969 (07:00pm)

In my opinion the Silmarillion is the best of Tolkien's books it reveals his true romanticism. It is the book that all others are based on and if people don't bother to read it they shouldn't be on this web site making uninformed comment's

Samwisegamgee has made 607 posts and is a Hobbit from Hobbiton and is not online.
Posted Wednesday 31st December 1969 (07:00pm)

I agree with Eryan, that is just how I felt when I first read my (paperback, I want a leather one like Grondy's ) one. If you start the Silmarillion, be sure to check out our Silmarillion Discussion Group, it's coming along wonderfully (in my opinion), I know I've gained a lot of insight from the posts there.

Tyrhael has made 1187 posts and is an Elf from Lothlorien and is not online.
Posted Wednesday 31st December 1969 (07:00pm)

Actually, Tolkien alluded to the Silmarillion's presence in LoTR. JRR pretended that he was just a historian translating into English what Frodo had written (LoTR) and what Bilbo had (Hobbit). However, he claimed that BILBO wrote the Silm. as well! In the prologue, under Note on the Shire Records, it is written that Bilbo gave to Frodo "three large volumes bound in red leather," concerning the Elder Days, labeled on their backs "Translations from the Elvish, by B.B." It certainly seems that these three volumes were 1) Ainulindalë and Valaquenta 2) Quenta Silmarillion 3) Akallabęth and Of the Rings of Power and the 3rd Age... Christopher Tolkien even says that he believes that that was what his father meant, in the Foreword to the Book of Lost Tales I.

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